Sarah Sewall

Sarah Sewall "is the Director of the Carr Center and Lecturer in Public Policy, she also directs the Carr Center's Program on National Security and Human Rights. During the Clinton Administration, Sewall served in the Department of Defense as the first Deputy Assistant Secretary for Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Assistance. From 1987-1993, she served as Senior Foreign Policy Advisor to Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell, delegate to the Senate Arms Control Observer Group, and on the Senate Democratic Policy Committee. Sewall has also worked at a variety of defense research organizations and as Associate Director of the Committee on International Security Studies at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was lead editor of The United States and the International Criminal Court: National Security and International Law (2000) and has written widely on U.S. foreign policy, multilateralism, peace operations, and military intervention. Her current research focuses on the civilian in war and includes facilitating a dialogue between the military and human rights communities on the use of force."

"Sarah Sewall, deputy assistant secretary of defense from 1993 to 1996". 

Writing in 2007 Edward S. Herman notes that it is "A dead giveaway is the fact that its current Executive Director, Sarah Sewall, has been a consultant to the Pentagon and is a specialist in counter-insurgency warfare (see her "Modernizing U.S. Counterinsurgency Practice," Military Review, Sept./Oct., 2006)." 

"The United States and the International Criminal Court: National Security and International Law. Launched in 1998, this study brought together legal, political, and military experts to examine the relationship of the proposed International Criminal Court (ICC) to US national security interests. Co-directed by CISS cochair Carl Kaysen (MIT), Sarah Sewall (Harvard University), and Michael Scharf (New England School of Law), the project produced a full-length volume that has helped to frame ongoing debates about the US position toward the ICC." 


 * National Advisory Board, Council for a Livable World
 * Advisory Board, Center for a New American Security

Publications

 * Sarah Sewall, "What's the Story Behind 30,000 Iraqi Deaths?", Washington Post, December 18, 2005.